On telling Mr. Whitesell that he planned to make everybody believe that a prized client "has lost his mind and make him as unattractive as possible, you would think he would have me killed immediately," Mr. Affleck said.
When many of Haney's celebrated coaching colleagues were told that Haney was spending about 30 percent of his time with one prized client, they expressed a surprise that bordered on astonishment.
In an attempt to prevent Stretford trying to sell Rooney again, so making even more money from his most prized client, United will reward his company with another £500,000 if Rooney honours his contract.
When it comes to his prized client, no task is too menial for Eisenbud, who has represented Sharapova since she was 12. Today, at 25, she is the highest-paid female athlete in the world, earning about $28 million over the past year, according to Forbes magazine.
The Nassar Investment Company, the Palestinian economy's biggest exporter, had an urgent $100,000 order from a prized new client.
Buddy, who becomes Felix's full-time chauffeur and part-time sidekick, can never tell if, at any given moment, his prize client will show rage, charm, sorrow or plain old backwoods American weirdness.
The London Gateway port insisted that there was still "huge momentum" around the Essex facility despite the blow of prize client, retailer Marks & Spencer, abandoning plans to build a new £200m distribution centre on the site.
So it went with David Lonner, whose prize client is the director J. J. Abrams, and Alan Gasmer, whose long list of writers and directors includes Nicholas Meyer, a filmmaker with credits, like Mr. Abrams, on various "Star Trek" films.
After Kitty Kelley, author of unauthorized biographies, announced in 1983 that she was taking aim at Mr. Solters's prize client, Sinatra, the publicist castigated her as "modern mud-slinging's miniscule mistress of malice".
(It's not much better on screen, I'm afraid.) What Mary doesn't know -- and what Steve neglects to mention when they take in an old movie later on -- is that he's betrothed to her prize client, a high-powered heiress played by Bridgette Wilson, who good-humoredly takes what would have been, in the olden days, the Ralph Bellamy role.
Both groups say they wish to protect investors who have suffered at the hands of mutual funds that made special trading arrangements for prized institutional clients.
